Zitronen im Mondschein

There is something within you that brings him death. According to a prophecy, Maria leaves the man she loves, an extraordinarily gifted painter. Alone, she tries to make a living as a fortune teller in a traveling circus with her child. As hunger grows during World War I, she takes little Mira to an orphanage. Years later, the two women meet again in Düsseldorf. Mira despises her mother. She falls in love with a cinema pianist who introduces her to a revolutionary group. But then a strange man appears, an artist whose stories and ideas fascinate her.